It's a fact: your child will wet the bed heavilly when starting an alarm program. With an alarm system, the first nights using the alarm will feel like the tide has rushed in, and your child's bed will show the results of that flooding. These first nights of using an alarm are very stressful, as the realization of the amount of urine your child voids during the night becomes apparents - to both of you.
Waterproof overlays can help protect your child's bedding from their bedwetting by simply placing the overlay on top of their fitted sheet before they go to bed. Most waterproof overlays are a soft, white material on the top side, with a vinyl or other waterproof layer on the opposite side. The color of the waterproof layer varies from manufacturer to manufacturer.
Waterproof overlays come in a variety of sizes, including designs for "tuck in" overlays that will make the overlay stay in place during the night.
When your child wet the bed, once they have taken care of changing their pajamas and washing up, you will merely have to replace the overlay with another one , perhaps change the flat sheet if it happened to get wet as well, and your child can go back to sleep. The overlays are perfectly suited for use with bedwetting alarms and a training program. They are somewhat absorbant, but using them with a bedwetting alarm and changing them immediately when wet will help prevent odor and discomfort.
Waterproof overlays can be found at a variety of different retail outlets including Wal-Mart, Target and K-Mart. Overlays are also available in a disposable product which will be separately featured here on bedwetting-enuresis.com.
For a complete bed-wetting solution, we strongly recommend the use of a Malem bed-wetting alarm for night-time training.